Category Archives: Resep STEAK

Resep Sup Konro Masakan Khas Makassar. Sup Konro derived from the Indonesian word sup means soup and konro means ribs in Buginese languange. Sup konro is Indonesian spicy beef rib soup originally from Buginese cuisine, Makassar of South Sulawesi. Sup konro made with quartered whole meaty beef ribs and served within the long ribs bone bent outward from the broth. The konro soup is spicy, rich, creamy with blackish-brown color.

Sup Konro Spicy Beef Ribs with Peanut Soup

Resep bumbu halus sup konro or spice paste of kondro soup contain garlic, red shallots and red chilies pepper. The blackish color broth derived from Kkuwak or keluak (Pangium edule). Keluak or black nut is a common ingrediets to give a nutty and creamy flavour in Indonesian cuicine, just like my Resep gabus Pucung (Spicy Stewed Snake Head Fish with Keluak). Keluak or back nut used to be soaked first in a cold tab water to soften it before mmashed within other spices. The spicy and strong-tasting soup is made from a mixture of various spices, especially toasted coriander, nutmeg, cloves and white peppercorn.

Sop Konro Iga Sapi

Cara membuat sup konro or how to make spicy beef ribs with peanut soup is easy. Select the fresh beef ribs and ask the butcher to cut the whole beef ribs into quarter because a single portion of sup konro contain two long meaty beef ribs. The beef ribs boiled with tab water for about 30 minutes until half done, meanwhile the spice paste sauteed until caramelized and fragrant. The sup konro spice paste and other herbs then added into the soup and the heat turned down into simmer for another 30 minutes. The boiled peanut pasted then added into the sop konro and the soup boiled until tender for about 15 minutes. Sop konro usually served with chopped scallion, chilli sambal and drizzled with lime juice. Sup konro usually eaten either with burasa (soft and grainy rice cake) or bite size ketupat (dense rice cake).

Sup Konro Iga Sapi Khas Makassar

Sup konro got a creamy color from the addition of peanut within the broth. The spicy beef ribs soup within peanut on it’s broth bring a special nutty and creamy flavour; similiar with coconut milk in thin curry soup. The peanut usually boiled and then mashed into paste priorly added into sup konro broth that already boiled with spice paste.

Konro Bakar Saus Kacang

Authentic and originally sup konro served as spicy rich soup, however today the innovative version of konro is the grilled or barbequed konro. Konro bakar or barbequed konro is actually a derivatived recipe pf konro; the beef ribs drained from the soup then glazed with special peanut barbeque sauce and then grilled over charcoal grill. The konro bakar or barbequed beef ribs then served with peanut sauce, chili sambal and the konro broth in another bowl.

Konro Bakar & Saus kacang

Peanut Sauce Glazed Barbequed Beef Ribs

The peanut barbeque sauce for glazing the grilled beef ribs or konro bakar is similiar with satay sauce. Konro bakar saus kacang got a slighly different taste within the satay sauce because the peanut sauce for the grilled beef ribs din’t contain any kecap manis or Indonesian sweet soy sauce and kencur (Sand ginger or Kaempferia galanga). The peanut sauce for konro bakar also contain more cillies and less palm sugar.

Barbequed bone-in beef ribeye is meaty and tender or konroiga sapi bakar with a hint of smokey aromas, even i just grilled it over my gas stove. I guess my barbequed beef ribs or konro bakar got more intense flavour if i grilled it over charcoal flame. Konro bakar or grilled beef ribs with spicy peanut sauce is one of my favourite dish. I’m using bone-in beef ribeye for making konro bakar,it’s obvious the result is stunning!

Recipe Coffee and Chili Rubbed Steak with Savoury Chocolate Sauce. Can you imagine coffee and chocolate flavour paired with beef steak ? sounds odd, but i guess you should try it first then made your own verdict. This post is the answer for the challenge from one of my fellow colleagues. She ask me to made a delicious steak with a US choice a.k.a cheap steak eversince she only know that most of my beef steak recipe made of US Prime Beef or Japanese Wagyu Beef. Well, actually i already made dry aging tenderloin from a local beef and cook it into Dry Aged Tenderloin Steak with Spicy Blue Cheese, Chili, Basil and Caramelized Onion Butter. Eversince she’s favourite cut of beef is ribeye, i made this recipe with it.

The coffee rubbed steak didn’t taste bitter at all, that’s for damn sure ! Since it was my first hesitation once i read my fellow friend post Coffee Crusted Steak Recipe, i guess i’ll probably regret if i didn’t gi it a shoots then. The acid content on the coffee works as a natural tenderizer for the steak, it also infused a pleasant coffee aromas and tangy flavour into it. To accompany my chili and coffee rubbed ribeye steak, i paired it with savoury chocolate sauce.

The perfect ribeye steak must be fullfilled my check list. The texture of perfect steak must be tender and bounchy with slighy chewy once you had your first bite. The meat must be moist and juicy on the inside while the outside of the beef charred and seared to lock out the beef juice. The perfect medium rare steak got a deep red color and the grey area is less than 3 mm from the edge. Perfecly medium rare steak just cooked until the marbled fat within the flesh renderred and melted in the mouth. The perfect beef steak must have intense and deep beefy flavour too, can i had this all perfect steak requirements from the supermarket cheap individual steak ?

The real question is can i made the perfect ribeye steak with a regular or cheap US choice cut of steak. Now the pressure point, my friend is quite a cheap lady, but she wanted something taste fancy on her plate without paying quite an effort and cost for it. Well, i guess my refrigerator dry aging is the answer to had a delicious steak from a cheap ribeye steak. Unfortunately, my previously Dry Aging Beef Tenderloin in The Home Refrigerator recipe takes 14 days to change a relatively cheap local beef tenderloin into a prime steak house quality tenderloin steak taste a like. Commercially dry beef aging is the whole cut of beef placed in a controlling enviroment in 1– 4°C (33 – 39°F) temperature, and 80–85% relative humidity and some air velocity. It works with my cheap whole tenderloin beef, but would it works with individual steak cut regular ribeye? Can i dry aging individual steak cut in my fridge ? Seriouseats say No, but i said YES!!! i tried it myself. The princip of this home refrigerator dry aging individual steak is to let some moistures evaporated from the steak for consentrate the flavour without completely drying it off and let the microbial organism and natural enzyms works jut enought to break down the meat collagen and tenderize the beef without further rotten it.

How to Dry Aging Individual Beef Steak in The Fridge

How to dry aging the individual steak (about 1-2 inches thickness with 300-500 grams weight beef steak) in the fridge is done by placing the unwrapped sliced steak above metal wire rack and left it undisturbed for commonly 2 days in the ideal fridge temperature (about 1– 4°C or 33 – 39°F) and the fridge humidity in “dry mode”. Unfortunately this procedure didn”t change much of the beef flavour and the texture instead slighly drying and consentrate the beef flavour. Simply by adjusting the refrigerator temperature from ideal to 6-10°C (42 – 50°F) by rotate the temperature console in the refrigerator until without changing the humidity setting.

This temperature allow the decomposition microbial bacteria and fungi and also the natural enzymes works better. To make sure the air circulating well surround the beef, i let it sit in the middle fridge rack for itself. To observed your refrigerator temperature is ight, put digital thermometer and abandoned it 50 minutes inside the fridge (just where you place your beef) then adjust the console until your ideal 8°C termperature is reached. Never set higher temperature than 10°C because the beef will be spoilage due to excessive microbial growth. The beef collagen break down process by the friendly microbial organism ideally take only 2-3 day , at this period some of the steak cut beef ribeye moisture evaporated and made the flavour consentrated while the collagen is break down but not yet spoilaged.

This is how individual ribeye steak look a like after dry aged 3 days in the home refrigerator in about 6-10°C (42 – 50°F) temperature with a relatively dry humidity. The fridge dry aged ribeye steak outer layer turn into waxy and firmer texture when you touch it. The dry aged beef got a dark red color. Strong beefy aromas comes from the dry aged beef once you smells it. No need to trimmed off the waxy outer layer layer, because it’s quite thin and yet still edible without any slime, mold or bizzare smells on it’s surface, so i can tell you this steak is still good to eat.

I even try to prolonged dry aged another individual steak in the 6-10°C (42 – 50°F) fridge for 4 and 5 days and it turn into a bizzare and unpleasing smells once it cooked even there’s no trace of mold on it. Prolonged periode (more than 5 days) of dry aging using individual steak cut beef made the steak outer layer unedible thought and dry, unless the microbial organisms rotten and molded the steak, the remaining edible meat is too thin after the unedible layer trimmed off.

Coffee and Chili Rubs For Beef Steak Ingredients

The coffee and chili crusted seasoning for the beef steak made of ground coffee, smoked paprika powder, dry chili flakes, freshly ground black peppercorn and Homemade Garam Masala Powder. I also add some brown sugar and salt on the coffee rub mixture to season and marinade the beef steak for at least 45 minutes prior to cooking. I’m using genuine Indonesian civet cofee for this steak recipe, it has very pleasant tangy fruity body and it goes well to seasoned my Grilled Pork Belly with Coffee Glaze Recipe. The chili flakes, garam masala, black peppercorn and smoked paprika made complex flavour of spicy, coffee, peppery, hot and smokey for the beef steak.

Coffee and Chili Marinated Beef Ribeye Steak

The ribeye steak rubbed goodly with the civet coffee powder, chili flakes, smoked paprika powder, brown sugar and salt mixture and then drizzled with olive oil. The dry aged ribeye steak then left in the room temperature for at least 45 minutes prior to cooking. The salt driven out the moisture from the beef and made the salt dissolved and infused the dripping with the coffee crust mixture. The dripping then penetrated again into the meat after 1 hours marinated. The osmosis process infused the tangy civet coffee flavour, spicy chili, garam masala and black peppercorn alongside with smokey paprika powder, just perfect to seasoned my dry aged ribeye steak.

How to perfectly seared the ribeye steak util the steak outer layer charred and middle cooked it into medium rare. I like to use Heston Blumenthal method, but i guess the the coffee and chilli rubs gonna be burned in seconds, so i wipe out the marinade a little bit. After i heat the cast iron frypan until sizzling hot, i mean very-very hot until it freakingly mad smoking. Never forget to turn off your smoke alarm before you cooking the steak and luckily i don’t have one. You can use your stopwatch for countdown, but i’m using my mind as i used to be countdown the time for composite dental filling light cure. I put the steak on the pan and allow it to cook for 15 seconds then turn it over every 15 seconds until the middle temperature reach 130 to 135 F. (55 to 57 C.)

The recipe of savoury chocolate sauce for beef steak is quite simple too. First you should know that dark chocolate is more preferred because milk chocolate or over-swetened chocolate turn into funny taste sauce. I’m using 70 percent cocoa dark chocolate block (Gourmet chocolate, yes this is pricey! just don’t let my friend know about it). To add the savoury taste to the bitter sweet dark chocolate, i add salted butter and finely chopped bacon for it. Beside, some caramelized onion, shallots and garlic add to complexion of sweet flavour and the last ingredients is too obvious for my Indonesian licking, chili flakes! Hot and spicy made everything taste even better.

Peanut crusted beef tenderloin stuffed with spinach, chorizo, mozarella cheese and spicy gorgonzola blue cheese butter. This recipe is inspired by a from my friend Liz Berg of Thatskinnychickcanbake.com recipe, Gorgonzola Mushrooms Stuffed Beef Tenderloin Recipe. Instead using crumbled gorgonzola cheese, i add my homemade spicy gorgonzola butter recipe with basil, chili and caramelized shallots for this recipe. Spinach stuffed tenderloin with peanut and mustard crust is looks so fancy and elegant dish, even sounds quite an effort but actually you can easily apply this recipe in your very own kichen. Try this spinach, cheese and chorizo stuffed roasted whole beef tenderloin with crusted peanut layer to impressed your relatives in a special occations gathering party or even on romantic candle light dinner with your girlfriend, just make sure that she isn’t some sort of tree-hugging vegan chicks.

Peanut crusted tenderloin is the first seducing layer on this dish. The peanut is lighly toasted and roughly chopped, covering all over the whole beef tenderloin. The peanut crusted spinach stuffed beef tenerloin then popped in into the oven and roasted until got a crusted and nice golden brown color. You may combine or adjust the peanut with your favourite nuts for this recipe, instead peanut, you can use walnut, almond, cashew, Macadamian or Brazilian nuts, or any available nuts nearby your place. Just like my Pistachio Nuts Crusted Lamb Rack with Feta Cheese and Spinach Stuffing Recipe, the crusted nuts layer need some bonding agent to made it stick better to covering the beef tenderloin surface. I’m using a mixture of honey mustard and egg yolk as a glue for the peanut crust layer.

Now were talking about the stuffing for the whole beef tenderloin, just look at the photograph and you can tell me all the goodness loaded on the butterflied tenderloin. The stuffing for the whole tenderloin is sauteed spinach with garlic and basil, sliced genuin Spanish chorizo, thick sliced mozarella cheese and sliced gorgonzola blue cheese butter. I spread the ttuffing evenly, but not covering about 1 inch from the edge of the flatened beef tenderloin. I did this to k kept the stuffing inside the denderloin and not burst out when you roast in in the over. DO NOT OVERFILLED the beef tenderloin, too much filling might made the stuffed tenderloin explode out from the tenderloin, eventhough it won’t ruined the taste but it’s won’t be plateable.

Spinach and Cheese Stuffed Beef Tenderloin, Totally Seducing!

You can adjust the stuffing for the tenderloin as your licking preference, other delicious veggies stuffing for beef tenderloin could be caramelized onion or cabbage, sauteed kale or swiss chard etc. Plenty of cheese selection instead of mozarella may loaded in to stuffed the beef tenderloin, soft cheese is preferred becauce it’s easier to melt; goat cheese, feta cheese, camembert, brie etc. Another savoury kick beside chorizo is bacon, anchovies or other dry cured meat or sausage. A few slice of butter added to kept the beef tenderloin stuffing moist and flavoursome.

Tenderloin is tenderloin and it’s literrary because tenderloin not much taking effort for the cow’s movement. Beef tenderloin cut is lean and least affected by the fat marbling grading, you should check the cross section of grade 3 marbling point tenderloin to grrade 12 marbling point wagyu tenderloin, you’ll find not much different on the ammunt of of white fat distributes between the muscles on it. This makes the cheap tenderloin is just as tender as the insanely pricey wagyu tenderloin. The difference between the pricey beef tenderloin such as US Black Angus, Wagyu, Kobe etc from the cheap ones is on the flavour, the pricey beef might be take from a cattle that feed with best selection of whole grain, corn, nuts, fresh grass and stuffs, this made the the meat is got more complex flavour. For any stuffed beef tenderloin recipe, i suggest you choose the regular tenderloin. Regular beef tenderloin is preferred since we add another flavour into it, while the pricey gourmet tenderloin is already flavoursome, lighly seasoned and seared in a sizzling hot skillet is just perfect to prepare it.

I like my oven roasted whole beef tenderloin with spinach, cheese and chorizo stuffing served medium done. Medium done whole beef tenderloin means the internal temperature when you put the meat temperature gauge in the middle of the thickest part must reach at least 145-155F or about 63-68°C. This temperature enought to melt the blue cheese butter stuffing and also soften the mozarella cheese and the internal meat slighly pink and lighly firm. Your roasted tenderloin would be a fest with the crunchy peanut crust, gooey melted mozarella cheese with a burst of melted spicy gorgonzola cheese butter flavour and it’s all rolled in a tender and juicy beef tenderloin. Just look into the photograph of sagital section of my spinach and cheese stuffed beef tenderloin above, it’s all perfect if you ignored my lack of knive skills.

My sister is pregnant and i insist that she never ever eaten any soft of medium rare or even medium done meat, including this seducing roasted whole tenderloin with peanut crust and cheesy spinach stuffing. So please, to ya’ll mommy to be, stop bitching about pleasing your taste buds, i’m pretty sure you didn’t want to risk your baby with parasites or food poisoning from unsufficient cooked meat either. I even cooked my Balinese Style Grilled Baby Back Ribs Recipe until well done for her. So then to served this tenderloin well done for my sister, i put the leftover toasted peanut in the bottom of the pan, then put the sliced spinach stuffed tenderloin on top of it and put extra mozarella cheese to cover it, popped it into the oven and broiled until the cheese melted and slighly charred. I eat a tiny bite of the well done tenderloin and it’s incredibly quite moist and tender, i guess the stuffing really paid an effort on it.

INSTRUCTION:

Clean and then pat dry your whole beef tenderloin, remove the fat and silver skin (thin, pearlescent membrane running along top of tenderloin)

Rub half of the spice and herbs to the beef tenderloin, marinade for about 2 hours in the fridge,

Preheat oven to 200°C

Pat dry the beef tenderloin, carefully butterfly the beef tenderloin and then flatened with meat hammer or use the dull side of your knive.

Season the flatened or butterflied beef tenderloin with the remaining half of the herbs and spices.

Spread the sauteed spinach and basil over the butterflied beef tenderloin, and then arrange the sliced chorizo, mozarella cheese and Homemade Gorgonzola Blue Cheese Butter over it. let the stuffing didn’t touch about 1 inch from the edge.

Gently fold and roll the beef tenderloin, make sure all stuffing are sealed with the tenderloin meat

Dip the seared and stuffed beef tenderloin into the lighly toasted peanut mixture

Make sure all over the surface of the beef tenderloin covered with toasted beef tenderloin

Spray evenly the peanut crusted layer with good quality olive oil, put it into the preheated oven

Let the the spinach, cheese and chorizo stuffed beef tenderloin roasted until the internal temperature reach about 65°C for medium done, this take about 30-45 minutes, depend on the size fo your beef tenderloin

Take out the pean ut crusted beef tenderloin and stuffed with spinach, cheese and chorizo from the oven, let it reast for about 5 minutes until the meat absorb the dripping evenly

Tenderloin steak with spicy gorgonzola blue cheese butter is a hearthy, easy and yet elegant dish for a romantic dinner or other special occation. Sure you can impressed your guess of your love one within, even the preparation is so easy. Take out the tenderloin steak about 30 minutes prior to cooking and let it reach room temperature, meanwhile, prepare the ingredients for the spicy chili and basilblue cheese butter. Obviously, everybody love tenderloin, especially the tips of it that usually called filet mignon in france. I had served tenderloin many ways, Tenderloin Steak with Roasted Garlic Sauce, Tenderloin Filet Mignon with Red Wine Demi Glace Sauce or even cured it into Homemade Tenderloin Beef Bresaola. This tenderloin with chili basil blue cheese butter is another great option to cook tenderloin steak.

Tenderloin is a lean muscles or meat which not much taking effort for the cow’s movement. Tenderloin is tender, just like how it’s named. Tenderloin cut is least affected by the fat marbling grading, you should check the cross section of grade 3 marbling point tenderloin to grrade 12 marbling point wagyu tenderloin, you’ll find not much different on the ammunt of of white fat distributes between the muscles on it. This makes the cheap tenderloin is just as tender as the insanely pricey wagyu tenderloin. The difference between the pricey wagyu tenderloin from the cheap ones is on the flavour, the pricey beef might be take from a cattle that feed with best selection of whole grain, corn, nuts, fresh grass and stuffs, this made the the meat is got more complex flavour.

I love dry aging and curing meats at home, my previously 2 days dry aged Kobe Beef Ribeye with Creamy Mushrooms Sauce using Heston Blumenthal perfect steak method turn out really good. The steak is tender, juice and really beefy, so then i really need to give this home fridge beef aging method to the next level. Seaching all over the internet for home dry aging beef method made me stumble upon to Seriouseats Complete Guide to Dry-Aging Beef at Home, the author describe that individual steak with a thickness 1 1/2 inches or less that dry aged for a week turn into inedible dried out meat. 7 days dry aged beef at fridge left you about 1 cm thickmess of edible meat after you trimming the hard and moldy layer and this means impossible to cookit lower than well-done.

I gotta proved this easy homemade beef aging using fridge theory myself. So then i went to the fresh market and asked the buther to cut 2 tenderloin steaks with about 6-7 cm (2-2 1/2 inches) thickness for each of it. I’m using a regular cattle tenderloin for this project, regular beef tenderloin means the beef even didn’t given any marbling point grading. Nothing to worried about, if the result is compeletely big fat zero i’m not gonna feeling really bad about it anyway. The meat, check! now the fridge must be totally cleaned out from other veggies and herbs, otherwise it’s gonna be ruined the meat. All the fresh ingredients including veggies, potatoes, fruits and herbs is put in a air sealed tupperware. The beef tenderloin got the second rack of my fridge all for itself to let the air surrounding the meat circulates better. I left the beef tenderloin lay in a shallow metal rack for seven days in my fridge without any wrapping and flip it every 2 days. I set the fridge in the “dry mode” and kept the fridge door closed unless i really-really need to get things out of it because to often opening the door made temperature inside the fridge fluctuated and it’s undesireable in dry aging beef.

Dry Aged Beef Tenderloin Steak with Blue Cheese Butter

Right after the tenderloin beef dry aged for 14 days in the fridge, i observed the meat layered by a waxy crust without any spot of white mold in the bottom and it’s pretty normal for dry aged beef. I trimmed the hard waxy layer all over the surfave of the beef tenderloin and left about 4-5 cm (1 1/2-2 inches) thickness of edible meat. The 14 days dry aged tenderloin got a bloody dark red color with a distinct beefy smells. The texture of 14 days dry aged beef tenderloin is more bounchy compare to the fresh ones due to the moisture loss. The verdict of my dry aged tenderloin according to my taste buds, the steak is really tender and melt in mouth, i really mean it for real. For more complexion of beef flavour on your dry aged tenderloin, you can continue to dry aged beef to 45 or 60 days, don’t get hesitate that your beef gonna be completely drained out because it wont. Right after the first two weeks of aging, the muscle fibers closely packed and seal the moisture from the inner side meat. In the other hand, the enzyme continued to break down the muscle and developing more complex flavour. The 14 days old and 45 days old dry aged beef gonna had almost the same thickness of dry waxy layer of meat to be trimmed off.

The gorgonzola blue cheese butter for my 14 days dry aged tenderloin steak in this recipe is really simple and yet burst with flavour. I mixed roughly chopped basil, sauteed and caramelized chopped red shallots and chilies, then stir it with gorgonzola blue cheese and clarified butter. The gorgonzola cheese butter got a really complex flavour, sweet from the caramelized shallots, nutty from the clarified butter, spicy hot from the chilies, herbs fragrance of Thai lemon basil and all of that overwhelm with salty and pungent blue cheese. All the ingredients must be chilled before mixed, then after mixed well i put it in a cling wrapping plastic and then rolled it to assemble a cylindrical log. Wrapping it once more with alumunium foil made it chilled even better in the fridge. The spicy chili and basil blue cheese butter log than cut into a thick coin and place over the tenderloin steak, melt a little bit and there you go to enjoy it.

This spicy chili and basil gorgonzola butter using clarified butter that really had a lower temperature melting point compare with the regular butter. Blue cheese butter with clarified butter is so easy to melt as you see in the photograph, so i need to keep it chilled before serving instead it’s spreadable rather than plateable. Clarified butter is renderred butter without the milk content, that’s why the clarified butter color is yellow instead of white. Clarified butter got a nutty flavour, a complex combination of almond and peanut. You can use regular butter for a better presentation, it’s hold it’s form and pretty easier to photograph as well.

Ingredients :

How to Cook Dry Aged Tenderloin Steak with Heston Blumenthal Method:

Take your dry aged tenderloin steaks out of the fridge for a couple of hours until reach the room temperature

Rub all the dry aged tenderloin steak with salt and black peppercorn and make sure it coated evenly

Heat up your griller until as hot as it could be

Set your stopwatch to countdown the time

Pour the olive oil and melted butter to the dry aged tenderloin steak

Grill the dry aged tenderloin steak and let cook it for 15 seconds.

Flip the tenderloin steak over and over again every 15 seconds until it’s got a nice charred and crusted surface for about totally 1 minutes (i’m using 250 gr tenderloin steak, you need about 2-3 minutes for larger steak)

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Balinese style barbecued baby back ribs are one of my all-time favourite food. The huge meaty pork ribs well marinated in a turmeric based marinade with a burst of flavour from toasted spices and then slowly grilled over a wood charcoal then glazed with kecap manis or Indonesian sweet soy sauce barbeque sauce until the meat is done. Bali style grilled baby back ribs is totally addictive, the pork ribs are not only fork-tender and succulent in the inside, but they must also be slightly charred on the outside and glazed with sticky barbeque sauce with a pleasant smokey flavour. Definitely finger licking good !!!

The story behind why the heck i want to light up a wood fire charcoal for grilling my pork ribs is because my future little niece/nephew ask me, not literrary but she ask me through my sister. My oldest sister got her third pregnancy and she really craving for Balinese style baby back ribs from Naughty Nuri’s Warung. We Indonesian called a pregnant mom for constantly and stimultaneusly craving for spesific food as ngidam, she would think about it all the time unless the craving baby disire for the food is fulfilled. You may imagine that she would eat that a lot, sometimes it’s such a pain in the ass when she just lick the seasoning and left the rest of the food that she ask you to brought for her in 2 p.m. My brother in law was so damn lucky that he got a job meeting outside of the town, then left me dealing with his wife ngidam. Ngidam is considered a big deal among Indonesian, there’s a myth that the baby would keep drolling all over during his/her childhood, even my medical background really not sure if it’s true but in the end we still had to deal with it.

Iga Babi Bakar Bumbu Bali dengan Kecap Manis

Balinese style grilled pork ribs or iga babi bakar bumbu Bali in Bahasa got really spicy and flavoursome to the thickest part of the meat because it’s well marinated in balinese style seasoning. Balinese style seasoning for marinating meat called base genep or complete spice paste. base genep spice paste contain red shallot, garlic, ginger, turmeric, galagal, sand ginger, lemongrass, corriander, white peppercorn, candle nuts, dried shrimp paste and lots of chillies and turmeric. You see, i even curl my fingers just by listing the ingredients. Balinese style seasoning or base genep fragrance will definitely blowing yout mind, especially when you toast the corriander seed, black peppercorn, candle nuts and not forget to charred the dried shrimp paste first before mashed it into a fine paste. Beside that, i used to add kaffir lime leaves or zest too to enhance it with some citrusy flavour. I also add some leftover red yeast rice powder from makingCoffee and Char Siu Sauce Glazed Barbequed Pork Belly Recipe to bring a pleasant reddish color into it without adding any flavour.

Balinese style baby back ribs barbeque sauce are adapted from Naughty Nuri’s Warung recipe, a famous rbarbeque and grilled staurant in Ubud, Bali. Balinese style pork ribs barbeque sauce contain kecap manis, a thick sweet Indonesian soy sauce that made of black soy bean, palm sugar and spices. Kecap manis is important condiment and cooking ingredients in Indonesian cuisines, it used to flavoured Nasi Goreng or Indonesian Fried Rice and Sate Ayam or Indonesian Skewerred Chicken Satay Peanut Sauce. I also mixed the barbeque sauce with coconut water to keep the meat moist during the cooking process and added some extra umami flavour. Right after the baby back ribs are well marinated in Balinese style base genepseasoning, the pork ribs grilled, preferably over a charcoal grill for optimal smokiness. The kecap manis-based barbeque sauce is brushed on during the final stages of cooking and immediately flavors the ribs with all of its sweet salty goodness. The sugary glaze coats the ribs in a crusty lacquer, sealing in all of the porky juices and giving the ribs a shatteringly crisp coating.

I’m using boneless baby back ribs for this recipe. Deboned baby back ribs are more easily to cook compare to the bone-in ones. Beside, i really need to make sure the baby back ribs is throughly cooked because there’s a high risk of food poisoning from worm and others parasites if you consume unsufficiently cooked pork. I don’t wanna risk my pregnant sister, so then i purchased bone-in pork baby back ribs, trimmed the membrane that cover the sternum and then deboning it. Deboning baby back ribs is easy and fun actually, flip your baby back ribs bone side up, locate the ribs bone with your finger and made incision throughly until the boning knive tips hit the bone in the middle. After that slip your finger in the incision to seperated the meat from the bone, then the bone comes out easily if you correctly did the incision. Did this until all your baby back ribs bone gone. Voila, you just deboning your baby back ribs, but if you too lazy to do that yourself, simply ask the butcher to did it for you.

Balinese style grilled pork ribs usually served with steaming hot rice and some sambal or chilli relish. The barbequed pork ribs itself is really good actually, my sister even eat the entire slab without adiing any condiments, but eversince my Indonesian licking won’t be able to dance without any chillies, i still served it with sambal. There’s a several selection of sambal but i choose sambal kecap kacang or a sweet soy sauce sambal with chopped raw chillies, shallots and crushed toasted peanuts. Authentic balinese style condiments for grilled meat usually Sambal Matah or Balinese sambal of raw slices chillies, lemongrass, shallots and shrimp paste that poured with hot coconut oil), but if you want someting more tangy and refreshing, i bet you choose Sambal Dabu-dabu or Menadonese tomato and chilli salsa. The grilled pork ribs cut into bite size and then served alongside the sambal and then garnished with bawang goreng or crispy fried red shallots.

Grilled Beef Tenderloin Steak with Roasted Garlic Sauce. I’m using 3 little pieces of filet mignon or the tips of the tenderloin. The filet mignon weighed each about 125 grams and cost me totally about 25 USD. Pretty pricey, but i guess it’s worthed since filet mignon is considered as the most tender cuts of beef. I used to pan seared my steak before, but i guess i’m gonna grilled my tenderloin today to infused the smokey flavour into the flesh even more. I serving my filet mignon with roasted garlic sauce, don’t get me wrong, roasted garlic got much more milder garlicky flavour than sauteed or deep fried garlic. Perfectly roasted garic got caramelized sweet and also savoury hint, you can even barely eat it like roasted potato and it goes well too with the beef steaks.

Grilled Filet Mignon Tenderloin Steak with Roasted Garlic Sauce

Making oven roasted garlic recipe is so easy to do. Simply cut the tips end of the garlic bulp to made it a lot easier to extract after roasted, toss the garlic with olive oil and season it with salt and black pepper evenly, then lay them with the bottom side down in the oven tray. Use a big enough baking tray, so the garlic are not too crowded. You want room between them for the moisture to escape, which concentrates the garlic flavor. Bake for 30-45 minutes (depending of the garlic bulb size) in 482ºF (250ºC), or until the garlic are completely softened and wilted, and start to wrinkle and some of the them charred. The garlic bulb may take longer to roast, depending on the size and the ammount of your garlic. The oven roasted garlic will keep for about three days in the refrigerator and about 6 days if you packed it with oil, i also can be frozen for up to six months.

Dry Aged Tenderloin (Filet Mignon), note the dry and waxy surface !

I also using Heston Blumenthal perfect steak method to dry aging my tenderloin. My Perfectly Seared Ribeye Steak & Creamy Mushrooms Sauce Recipe was the first attemp with the Hesto’s method and the result is quite satisfying. The step is dry aging the beef steak in the fridge by placing the steak above metal wire rack and left it undisturbed for at least two days. The beef aging concentrates the flavour in the steak by evaporation and also break down or tenderized the meat by active enzymes works. The beef is ready when it’s outer layer turn into some waxy and firmer texture when you touch it. It’s no needed to peel off the outside layer of the dry aged tenderloin since the waxy layer is so thin. Never forget to take the steaks out of the fridge for a couple of minutes until it reach the room temperature before you cooked it.

Medium Done Grilled Beef Tenderloin Steak with Roasted Garlic Sauce

The Second step was searing the beef steak. Heat a cast iron frypan until sizzling hot, i mean very-very hot until it freakingly mad smoking and then seared it in cast iron pan for 15 seconds then turn it over every 15 seconds until the steak reach your preference doness. I adjusting the method and using my grill instead of pan. I rarely grilled my tenderloin steak but i really craving for it today, even the tenderloin is a tad overcooked to medium done (i hope it’s medium rare), but the tederloin still tender and taste very nice. I guess you won’t ever failed with filet mignon. Never forget to resting the meat to allow the juices reabsorbed into the meat. This is the secret of juicy tenderloin steak that usually omitted in domestic kitchen. I let my 125 grams tenderloin steak rest for about 2 minutes, and you needed about 5-7 minutes for larger size of steak.

Grilled Tenderloin Steak Recipe with Heston’s Blumenthal Method:

Ingredients :

How to Grill Tenderloin Steak Recipe:

Unwrap your beef tenderloin steak and pat dry, put it above wire rack in the middle of your fridge rack and let it undisturbed for 2 days

Take the steaks out of the fridge for a couple of hours and reach the room temperature

Rub all the tenderloin steak with salt and black peppercorn and make sure it coated evenly

Heat up your griller until as hot as it could be

Set your stopwatch to countdown the time

Pour the olive oil and melted butter to the tenderloin steak

Grill the tenderloin steak and let cook it for 15 seconds.

Flip the tenderloin steak over and over again every 15 seconds until it’s got a nice charred and crusted surface for about totally 1 minutes (i’m using 125 gr tenderloin steak, you need about 2-3 minutes for larger steak)

Check the tenderloin beef steak doness (medium rare is preferred) with meat thermometer and slet it rest for at least 2-3 minutes (i’m using 125 gr tenderloin steak, you need about 5 minutes for larger steak)

Served the perfectly grilled tenderloin steak with the roasted garlic sauce